Deep house is having one of those seasons where the playlist titles all blur together. Atmospheric deep house, melodic house and techno, sunset-to-warehouse hybrids. Scroll any of the big 2026 house playlists and the lane is crowded. The cuts that still land are the ones that keep the weight in the drums and let the melody do less. BAKKIS has just put one of those on his own imprint.
Another Day is out on Okada Records, the label the Norwegian producer launched in 2025 as a home for his own work and a growing circle of house artists. The original mix runs 5:41 and landed on September 24, 2026. On paper it sits between melodic house and deep house. In practice it leans toward the tougher end of that conversation: deep and atmospheric underneath, driven by the same club instincts he has been refining behind the decks.
The arrangement is built around fierce synth stabs and a tightly controlled rhythm section. Warm, hazy textures sit behind the groove instead of floating over it, so the track never tips into the polished, festival-ready version of melodic house that has taken over a lot of playlists this year. A sparse, evocative vocal drifts in and out. It gives the record an emotional pull without taking the room over. That balance is the whole point. Melody is there. Directness is still the center of the record.
It also reads as a deliberate step after Emphasize on R-TRYBE. That one opened up a more spacious side of his sound and picked up support from Beatport’s Best New Melodic House & Techno, plus the chart’s official Spotify playlist. Another Day pulls those strands closer together: the atmosphere from the spacious records, the weight from the club-facing ones, and the label identity he has been building on Okada since the imprint opened.
Andreas Bakketeig, better known as BAKKIS, has been around music longer than the producer tag suggests. He started hosting a radio show on Radio OS at 10, and that early curiosity led him to interview names including MC Hammer. Jean Michel Jarre and The KLF are the influences he points to as the ones that shaped where he landed. Radio came first. Club DJing followed in the late noughties, with sets for brands and rooms including Destino, Pacha, Dunes Ibiza, Hard Rock Ibiza, Ricks in Bergen, Rebel, and Jackspot.
Production is the newer chapter, and he talks about it like a hardware person, not a preset person. The Moog Subsequent 37 is the piece he keeps coming back to. You can hear that in the stabs on Another Day: short, physical, more instrument than soft pad. Okada has been the outlet for that studio habit, framed as a place for groove-led house with real club utility rather than trend-chasing. Another Day fits that brief. It is melodic without sanding the edges off, deep without disappearing into a chillout mix, and direct enough that a DJ can drop it when the room still wants pressure.
Melodic house and deep house are both easy to overproduce right now. The streaming versions of the genres reward long builds and pretty tops. Club versions still live or die on the rhythm section. BAKKIS is writing for the second room and letting the first one catch up. If you are digging through new atmospheric house this month, this is the one that keeps the drums honest.
If you are an artist trying to get a record like this onto the platforms DJs actually check, DistroKid keeps the upload path simple and lets you keep more of what the streams pay. You can take 7% off membership here: https://distrokid.com/vip/seven/2058328
What do you think of this side of BAKKIS, the tougher atmospheric cut or the more spacious R-TRYBE records? Drop it in the comments.
